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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:24:28 -0700
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] objtool fixes
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:06:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Josh, what's wrong with just disassembling the damn instruction?
>
> It's what objtool does.
>
> By all means add annotations for when the kernel does something
> *special*, and the annotation is "this violates the usual rules".
> Those kinds of annotations make perfect sense, and are a "don't
> complain about this, because I know I'm doing something odd".
>
> So annotations for things like non-standard stack frames etc are a good thing.
>
> But dammit, clac/stac is *not* that. Quite the reverse. clac/stac *is*
> the usual rule. clac/stac *is* the annotation.
There's also smap_save() / smap_restore(). For the latter we'd need to
look for alternatives with "push reg; popf", which is definitely not
SMAP-specific. So we'd need to start reading feature bits again, which
ends up even worse than what we had before.
I still don't see what's wrong with something like this:
# OBJTOOL (IGNORE_ALTERNATIVE)
911: .pushsection .discard.annotate_insn,"M",@progbits,8; .long 911b - .; .long 6; .popsection
Now compare that with an alternative:
# ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:101: asm goto(ALTERNATIVE_TERNARY("jmp 6f", %c[feature], "", "jmp %l[t_no]")
#APP
# 101 "./arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h" 1
# ALT: oldinstr
771:
# ALT: oldinstr
771:
jmp 6f
772:
# ALT: padding
.skip -(((775f-774f)-(772b-771b)) > 0) * ((775f-774f)-(772b-771b)),0x90
773:
.pushsection .altinstructions,"a"
.long 771b - .
.long 774f - .
.4byte ( 3*32+21)
.byte 773b-771b
.byte 775f-774f
.popsection
.pushsection .altinstr_replacement, "ax"
# ALT: replacement
774:
jmp .L250 #
775:
.popsection
772:
# ALT: padding
.skip -(((775f-774f)-(772b-771b)) > 0) * ((775f-774f)-(772b-771b)),0x90
773:
.pushsection .altinstructions,"a"
.long 771b - .
.long 774f - .
.4byte 516 #
.byte 773b-771b
.byte 775f-774f
.popsection
.pushsection .altinstr_replacement, "ax"
# ALT: replacement
774:
775:
.popsection
.pushsection .altinstr_aux,"ax"
6:
testb $16, boot_cpu_data+112(%rip) #,
jnz .L249 #
jmp .L250 #
.popsection
# 0 "" 2
#NO_APP
--
Josh
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